A check-authorizing company said Tuesday that credit, bank account and other personal information on 2.3-million consumers had been stolen, but none of the data were used for identity theft or other financial fraud.
The report from Fidelity National Information Services unit Certegy Check Services Inc., which is based in St. Petersburg, is the latest case of data theft that has troubled corporations, the federal government and universities. Fidelity National Information Services is not related to Fidelity Investments, the nation’s largest mutual fund company.
Court documents filed in a civil case in St. Petersburg allege that a former employee, William G. Sullivan, sold the information to data broker Jam Marketing, which then sold it to several direct marketing companies.
About 2.2-million records stolen from Certegy contained bank account information, and 99,000 had credit card information.
[St. Petersburg Times]
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The names and Social Security numbers of all 64,000 Ohio state employees were stolen last weekend from a state agency intern who left a backup data storage device in his car, Gov. Ted Strickland said.
An additional review of data revealed that the storage device also held information on 53,797 participants enrolled in the state’s pharmacy benefits management program, as well as names and Social Security numbers of about 75,532 dependents, the governor’s office confirmed Saturday. Strickland has asked Ohio Inspector General Tom Charles to investigate.
More information about the incident can be found on the Ohio State Government website. Free credit monitoring will be provided to those affected by this breach through Debix Identity Protection Network.
[Washington Post]
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Northwestern University is attempting to contact about 4,000 students and applicants after it was discovered that files containing their personal information had become available online, the school said Friday.
The personal information was stored on a computer at the Integrated Graduate Program in the Life Sciences, the school said in a statement. The names and other data were for people who attended or applied to the program from 1991 to 2007.
[Pentagraph.com]
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A laptop computer belonging to Northwestern University’s financial aid office in Chicago recently was stolen, and the Social Security numbers of some alumni may have been compromised, school officials said.
In a letter dated May 11, Associate Provost Michael E. Mills contacted an undisclosed number of potential victims, informing them one of the computer’s files contained their names and Social Security numbers.
[Chicago Tribune]
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The state is warning parents of 140,000 babies that some of their personal and medical information has been exposed because of a security lapse.
The Georgia Department of Human Resources mailed letters Wednesday to the parents of infants born in the state between April 1, 2006, and March 16, 2007, saying records containing their Social Security numbers and information about their medical histories were improperly discarded.
A spokesperson explained that for about a year someone was not shredding the supplemental forms parents are asked to fill out which are used for public health analysis. In the mailed letters, parents are urged to closely monitor their own credit.
[AccessNorthGa]
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The tapes went missing in transit from a contractor’s vehicle on Feb. 23 near the intersection of Interstate 287 and 684 — just a few miles south of IBM’s Armonk, New York, headquarters, said IBM spokesman Fred McNeese. “We’ve investigated the incident and concluded that the tape loss was inadvertent.”
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The tapes contained sensitive information including dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and addresses of current and former IBM employees. The majority of information was related to ex-IBMers, McNeese said.
IBM is currently offering one year’s worth of credit monitoring service to those affected by this incident. There were a few tapes that were not encrypted.
[InfoWorld]
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